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Patented Sept. I4. 1880.

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CHARLES H. SHAW, OF TROY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND W. RICHARD GATTELLE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BRACELET-CLASP.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 232,212, dated September 14, I880.

Application filed March ,6, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, CHARLES H. SHAW, of Troy, in the county of Itensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Bracelet-Clasp, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a durable and effective clasp that shall be attached to the bracelet without soldering.

Figure l is a side elevation of a bracelet, partly in section, showing the clasp in position. Fig. 2 is a plan of a bracelet,- showing the clasp. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of a portion of a bracelet, showing the clasp in position. Fig. 4 is an enlarged side elevation of a modification of the catch of the clasp, shown. in dotted lines.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents a bracelet constructed in two parts, hinged together, as shown at a.

The section I) of the bracelet is provided with a slotted tongue, 0?, as shown, which tongue d may be soldered or otherwise secured in place.

The section 0 of the bracelet A has a socket, f, in its end, into which socketf the tongue (Z enters when it is designed to clasp the bracelet.

Through the upper face of the bracelet-section 0, and communicating with the socket], is an opening, g, into which opening 9 the catch B is inserted, so that the attached spring h of said catch B shall extend rearward in the cavity of the bracelet-section c. This catch B has a slot, i, formed in its rear end, in which slot 6 the end of the spring h is fixed. Said slot 6 is so located as to leave a shoulder, 70, below it for engagement in the slot of the tongue d, and thereby hold the bracelet A clasped.

The upper face of the catch B is prolonged rearward into an ear, m, that rises slightly above the surface of the bracelet A when in position, so as to afford a ready means for lifting the catch from its locking position. This rearward prolongation m may be formed into a beveled point, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, or may present a blunt, corrugated, or notched face, as shown in dotted lines in its modified form, Fig. 4. This catch B is inserted into the bracelet-section 0 through the opening 9, as set forth, and held in place by the pin or pivot G, that passes transversely through the sides of the bracelet-section c and through the transverse perforation n in said catch B.

The catch herein shown and described may be made of any desired strength, and when requirin g repairs may be entirely detached from the bracelet for that purpose by withdrawing the pin or pivot O.

I am aware that it is not new to use a latch provided with a stud pivoted to one end of the bracelet to engage a slot in the catch or a tongue on the end of a section provided with a spring and adapted to enter a socket in the other section to be locked by a cam-lever, or to use a V-shaped spring compressible by a push-piece; but

What I claim as new is- The pivoted catch B, having an attached spring, h, a slot, 23, and shoulder k at the rear end, an car, an, by which the catch is lifted, and a perforation, a, in combination with a bracelet having the slotted tongue (I on one section and on the other a socket, f, and opening g, as shown and described.

CHAS. H. SHAW.

Witnesses:

RANDOLPH STIGKNEY, LEWIS E. GRIFFITH. 

